Fwd: Paper on the effect of Urbanization on Bird Communities (including Abstract)

["martin butterfield" <>]

I was sent this message from a sometime user of GBS data, and thought it might be of interest to any analysts in the group

 Martin

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In case it is of interest!  I can't recall who was looking at the effects of urbanisation but maybe you can pass this on.   I suspect it has potential relevance to fragmentation as well.

 

Incidentally, I don't know if it is just me, but at the Honours talks I noted a strong tendency for climate to be treated as something to ignore / work around, rather than something to consider / reflect on / incorporate into ecological studies.   I'm well aware of the limited amount of time available to Honours students, but I'd love to be involved if you can see any point in (and way of) giving students more of an insight into potential climate effects, and how climate factors can be incorporated into ecological thinking.  Not that I have any answers – but I do find it genuinely interesting to look at the questions!

 

Regards,

Heather

 

 

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Conservation Biology

  Volume 21, Number 3 (June 2007)

    

Functional Homogenization Effect of Urbanization on Bird Communities

 

 

 

   Authors:

VINCENT DEVICTOR ¹, ROMAIN JULLIARD ¹, DENIS COUVET ¹, ALEXANDRE LEE ², FRÉDÉRIC JIGUET  ¹

 

   Author Affiliations:

1:	CRBPO, UMR-5173-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, CP 51, 75005 Paris, France
2:	?

 

   Source:

Conservation Biology, Volume 21, Number 3 (June 2007)

 

   Page Numbers:

741 - 751

 

 

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   Abstract:

We studied the community richness and dynamics of birds in landscapes recently affected by urbanization to test the prediction that biotic communities living in degraded landscapes are increasingly composed of generalist species. We analyzed bird communities in 657 plots monitored by the French Breeding Bird Survey from 2001 to 2005, accounting for the probability of species detection and spatial autocorrelation. We used an independent land-cover program to assess urbanization intensity in each FBBS plot, from 1992 to 2002. We found that urbanization induced community homogenization and that populations of specialist species became increasingly unstable with increasing urbanization of the landscape. Our results emphasize that urbanization has a substantial impact on the spatial component of communities and highlight the destabilizing effect of urbanization on communities over time. These results illustrate that urbanization may be a strong driving force in functional community composition and that measuring community homogenization is a powerful tool in the assessment of the effects of landscape changes and thus aides sustainable urban planning.

 

   Citation:

VINCENT DEVICTOR, ROMAIN JULLIARD, DENIS COUVET, ALEXANDRE LEE, FRÉDÉRIC JIGUET . Functional Homogenization Effect of Urbanization on Bird Communities. Conservation Biology, Volume 21, Number 3 (June 2007), pp. 741-751, < http://ejournals.ebsco.com.ezproxy-m.lib.deakin.edu.au/direct.asp?ArticleID=4FAFB17970C2CEFE8379>

 

 

   URL:

http://ejournals.ebsco.com.ezproxy-m.lib.deakin.edu.au/direct.asp?ArticleID=4FAFB17970C2CEFE8379

 

 

 

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